"No man is ever allowed to touch me below the Mason-Dixon line."

"It would take four ordinary duchesses to make one Duchess of Windsor."

"Old people like me are such bores, the way they forget things."

"Nobody has the right to come to a party and sit there like a piece of furniture."

"I married the Duke for better and for worse, but not for lunch."

"You must always look like you stepped out of a bandbox."

"If ever the life of two people together was beset with problems-- problems, mind you, manufactured by our enemies-- it was ours."

"All my life I've disliked hot weather and coming to Nassau has been like taking a permanent slimming cure."

"I'm trying to collect money for a third clinic, but I hope you don't mind if I buy one or two dresses."

"You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance!"

"I, who had sought no place in history would now be assured of one-- an appalling one, carved out by blind prejudice."

"A fool would know that with tweeds or other daytime clothes one wears gold, and that with evening clothes one wears platinum."

"My endowments were definitely on the scanty side. Nobody ever called me beautiful or even pretty."

"The most important thing is to take care of your face. The other end you sit on."

"You have to wear black, aging or not, because when the little black dress is right, there is nothing else to wear in its place."

"I am not a beautiful woman. I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.  If everyone looks at me when I enter a room, my husband can feel proud of me. That's my chief responsibility."

"In my opinion, there is only one important rule about clothes: it is that they should be so simple and unobtrusive as to seem unimportant."

"Mine is a simple story. It is the story of an ordinary life that became extraordinary."

"I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers."

"A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience."

"For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat."

"Never explain, never complain."

 

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